Cultural Heritage and Memory Minor

Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory

Many students in Anthropology are interested in cultural heritage, museums, and how people make sense of and recall the past. The Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory is designed for students who are interested in the ways the past is remembered and activated in the present, sometimes as a mechanism to construct narratives and make political or legal claims about community and/or national identities. The Minor also examines culturally shaped forms of remembering and commemoration. The Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory is ideal for students interested in law and policy, development, museum studies, archives, cultural preservation, material culture studies, and the arts. The courses in the Minor will provide training for students interested in how the past is recalled and represented as well as the ethical dilemmas of commemoration.

The Minor in Cultural Heritage & Memory consists of consists of six courses totaling 18 credits : three required courses designed to give students a foundation in anthropological approaches to the past, heritage, commemoration, and memory and three additional electives that explore cultural diversity.  The Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory can be easily combined with Majors in other departments. If combined with a Major in Anthropology, four of the six courses (12 of the 18 credits) can overlap between the Major and the Minor and only 2 extra courses (6 extra credits) are required.

One of the following courses:

ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 
ANTH 103 Introduction to Archaeology 
ANTH 104 Language, Culture, and Society

One of the following courses:

ANTH 201 Essentials of Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 240 Essentials of Archaeology

ANTH 201 Essentials of Cultural Anthropology 
ANTH 204 Anthropology of Islam 
ANTH 205 Peoples of Mexico & Central America 
ANTH 206 Peoples of South America 
ANTH 207 Native North Americans 
ANTH 208 Peoples of South Asia 
ANTH 208W Peoples of South Asia (W) 
ANTH 210 Peoples of East Asia 
ANTH 211 Peoples of Africa 
ANTH 212 Peoples of the Middle East 
ANTH 215W Peoples of the Caribbean (W) 
ANTH 216 Peoples of Southeast Asia 
ANTH 232 Photography and the Visual World 
ANTH 233 Race, Class, and Ethnicity